The War Against Silence was a weekly music-review column, and then a weekly column about music, and then a weekly column that was often inspired by music. It was written by glenn mcdonald, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through a decade of devices and dreams and sleepless Wednesday nights. It was against many things, beginning with but not necessarily including silence, and in favor of many more, including some of the things it was once against and eventually its own end.

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2003 Pazz & Jop critical alignment ratings

472b · 12 February 04

Here are the voters in the 2003 Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, ranked according to the average number of other voters who voted for each of their album picks. If anyone had voted for the exact ten 2003 album winners, their rating would have been 121.3; anyone casting only five votes for the top five albums would have been rated 168. My own opinions were marginally more popular than usual this year.